biostem

I agree with your sentiment, but this may be better placed in the Suggestions and Feedback section...

"The Capacitrix":

A lesser lightning demon - "The Capacitrix":

Rest is kind of like sprint and brawl - useful early on, but cast aside once you grow in power. Seems perfectly sensible to me...

So what I'm hearing is... seafood boil???

Just make 2 sets - "Super Strength" and "Superer Strength"

A few thoughts: Dark armor for the fear the character instills in their opponents, or radiation armor to reflect a sort of "seeping contamination" and unending energy they exude, (also the extra absorb and end recovery from particle shielding seem oddly fitting, IMHO)...

It's kind of a necessary break from comic book storytelling to game mechanics - "Oh no Jean Grey died! No problem, *speed dials an empathy defender* Problem solved!" The APPs/PPPs try to more round out what a character can do, but even then many concessions are made - Ice Man can blast ice, melee with ice, armor himself in ice, freeze enemies in case, and so on, and do all with the highest power level. They're all essentially "Hero-class" characters, that do not have to abide by the rules of us players...

TBH I prefer the scrapper/sentinel version of ninjitsu to the stalker one, anyway...

Try a titan weapon/ninjitsu scrapper - it's fun being sneaky with a GIANT FREAKIN' WEAPON!

You can get them to be a little less intrusive with the dark options, but, yeah - a "No FX" or "Minimal FX" option would be fantastic!

Play however you like - they're your characters after all, but couldn't you just abandon them, without deleting them, in the off chance you ever want to revisit said character(s)?

Well, good thing none of the farms I run have enemies that are "specifically built to be powerless against your character". Citing some 3rd party source, as if it is the word of god handed down from on high, basically means nothing. Do you consider running radio missions an exploit? Using any repeatable content, an exploit? Scratch that - it doesn't matter, because your definition means nothing. Heck, the "disproportionate resource acquisition" and "intended gameplay" arguments are so vague that they rise to the level of meaninglessness. Is seeking out Freakshow to fight an exploit, since they give better rewards than other enemy groups? Is hover-blasting an exploit? You are just spitting into the wind and complaining that it hit you in the face... Ah, the classic fallback point of the indefensible...

You haven't proven that any of the behaviors that I stated weren't, are in fact, exploits. You also haven't provided clarification for those that I wasn't familiar with.

Alt-itis cannot be treated. You accept that you are an alt-aholic and embrace it! Seriously, though, it's a combination of costume, concept, and just the right combination of powersets that eventually "click", and which keep you coming back to that character time and again. Welcome back!

Ooh! I must've hit a nerve if I've risen to the level of "they who shall not be mentioned". It's ok. Go cuddle your dictionary.

Have you even been reading this thread? What were my first few responses? I was all in favor of refusing to team with exploiters...

You've neither proven that is the "standard english definition", nor the official HC one. Even if I granted your definition, though, you still haven't outlined what is or is not considered a "bug or design flaw" within CoH...

Please provide the CoH:HC "official" definition of exploit, so we all know which definition we are working off of, here. I wouldn't want to make any assumptions, after all...

Isn't everything "not an exploit", until deemed otherwise? It'd basically be impossible to play, if we operated under the opposite assumption...

Even if we granted that it's not an exploit, it then rises, (or sinks, depending upon your perspective), to the level of "no knockbacks, please", which is still, AKAIK, within the rights of a team leader to request...

I'd rather see some penalty for opening gifts, spawning enemies, then just running away... at least have the common decency to clean up your mess!

Are these like "True Scotsmen"?

I'm sorry to hear you've had such a bad experience. I, for one, do not run speed content and almost never place restrictions on whom can participate. I am also happy to explain to anyone how a mission or TF is run and what to expect, but you also need to speak up if you are unfamiliar with anything. That being said, the solution, as with many things, is to become the leader you wish others to be, and set a positive example...